Legal Project Manager

Tlt Llp; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading law firm is looking for a Legal Project Manager in Bristol. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing legal projects, developing matter plans, and ensuring services meet client needs. Applicants should possess strong analytical, project management, and communication skills. The firm promotes an inclusive culture and offers competitive salaries, hybrid working options, and numerous benefits, including private medical insurance and increased holiday entitlement based on length of service.

Benefits

25 days holiday (increasing to 30)

Private medical insurance

Flexible working approach

Qualifications

• Experience working in legal project management or professional services.
• Strong understanding of business needs and operational requirements.
• Ability to manage multiple projects concurrently.

Responsibilities

• Work with lawyers and clients to develop matter plans and budgets.
• Manage projects to deliver on time, on budget, and within scope.
• Assist in bids for legal project management services.

Skills

Analytical skills

Project management skills

Communication skills

Stakeholder engagement

Problem-solving skills

Job description

As a Legal Project Manager your day to day remit includes:

• Working directly with lawyers and clients on the development of matter plans, pricing, budgets, timelines and documentation of clearly‑defined scopes and assumptions on client matters, transactions, cases, outsourcing and projects.
• Managing matters, projects and outsourcing projects to help deliver the work on time, on budget and within scope, managing scope and cost creep and engaging with key stakeholders (to include clients, partners and other colleagues) to deliver each project as required.
• Assisting partners and other colleagues in bids for where legal project management (LPM) and our FutureLaw products are core to successful legal service delivery.
• Applying a consistent approach to LPM with whoever is managing legal matters.
• Work with the Head of LPM and the growing LPM team to help upskill people throughout the firm so that TLT has depth of LPM resource.
• Being engaged on client work to include interacting with clients to manage projects and to include working directly with clients to develop and deliver improved services, processes and projects both alongside the client service team and directly with our clients.
• Being an advocate for TLT's LPM inside and outside the firm.
  Experience in project managing transactions.
• A creative approach to problem solving with an ability to manage critical issues quickly and effectively.
• Strong analytical and project management skills including a thorough understanding of how to interpret the client's business needs and translate them into business/operational requirements.
• A proven ability to manage multiple projects concurrently.
• Excellent communication skills and an ability to engage with stakeholders. throughout the business at all levels and across fee earning teams and business services.
• End to end experience of a variety of different legal projects including litigation, corporate transactions, real estate transactions, contract management and remediation as well as involvement in software and service procurement and implementation, software development, business process review and reorganisation and transformation projects.
• The ability to deliver and embed Legal and other Tech into a firm with particularly focus on change management.
• Clear understanding of the latest developments in LegalTech to include (but not limited to) eDiscovery, Contract Review and Contract Management and automation.
• Experience of working in the legal sector, or professional services environment within a programme team would be ideal but is not a necessity.
  Fast paced, fast growing and forward thinking, TLT is the law firm that helps clients stay one step ahead, and we do the same for our people.

We work with high profile clients in innovative sectors. With local, national and international reach, we have over 1,800 people in offices across the UK and a network of partner firms across Europe, India and the US. TLT was named Law Firm of the Year at the Legal Business Awards 2023. This marks the third year in a row the firm has taken away this accolade in industry awards - having previously been named Law Firm of the Year at The Lawyer Awards in 2021 and the British Legal Awards in 2022. Our purpose is to protect, prepare and progress our clients for what comes next and it's essential that we do the same for our people, our planet and our communities too. In our open and collaborative culture, we encourage everyone to be their whole self, to have a voice and to contribute.

We value our employees highly and we want you to feel valued. You'll receive a competitive salary with an annual pay review. You will also have access to an extensive range of benefits via our flexible benefits scheme including 25 days holiday (which will increase to 30 days based upon length of service) and private medical insurance. At TLT we have a progressive fully flexible working approach. We empower our people to work in a place and at a time that meets their needs, those of their clients and of the wider team and firm. Part of this agile approach is a focus on hybrid working and supporting the work/life balance of our people.